Kate Snow Exhibition - Journal

Sunday, February 6, 12-3 pm

Friday, March 4th, 5-8 pm

and by appointment through March 12th

Over the last year, Kate Snow has been creating daily drawings that serve as both meditations and endurance exercises. Snow's topographical and meandering compositions ebb and flow with energy and dimensionality. Each drawing is teased out of a simple but repetitive movement, expressing a journey of mind and body. Snow's work often references elements of design to explore the uneasy relationship between chaos and control. Using line, repeating shapes, and a limited palette, she seeks balance within complexity and questions how we connect, rely on, and betray ourselves and each other.

In Journal, Snow chronicles work she has been making since an auto-immune disease that she has had since age 22 flared up in 2020. Coinciding with the pandemic that consequently interrupted her regular medical therapies, Snow's symptoms have ranged from acute to slight, but include physical weakness and tremors which limit what she is able to accomplish in the studio. Snow describes her process of developing this work as "being stuck, tracking time. Making a painting a day that documents my ability, a journal, a diary of my day-to-day. Some days I can function and work in the studio for up to three hours. Some days I can’t get out of bed." The drawings here span two months where Snow was able to sit at her studio table. Snow's dedication to figuring out how to reach beyond her own physical and emotional obstacles has become part of her practice. By presenting this set of images, she acknowledges this process.

Kate Snow is a painter and printmaker in Cleveland, OH. Her work has been shown across the United States and in Germany, and is included in a number of private and public collections including, Baker Hostetler, MetroHealth Hospitals, and Westin Hotels. She has been awarded residencies at the Grafikwerkstatt in Dresden, Germany; Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Saratoga, WY; and The Studios of Key West in Key West, FL. Most recently she was a recipient of the 2021 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award from the state of Ohio.